Re: flexfax: multi-image tiff -> PDF?

[Phil Watkinson <pkw@elgro.co.uk>]

At 17:54 26/12/98 +0000, Darrell Berry <darrell@ku24.com> wrote:
>i've found a package called tifflib, which generates higher quality,
>and much faster-rendering (tho larger) PostScript from TIFFs...its
>located at
>
>http://kubax9.kub.nl:2080/Decomate-1.0/tiff-v3.4-tar.gz
>

This is the tiff library that HylaFAX uses.

>
>and GhostView 5.50 has a nice ps2pdf filter...chaining the two
>together generates very high quality PDF fax images...
>

I would be very interested in what you have achieved. Could you
send details of the script/command lines you used?

>
>the only problem (and one shared with fax2ps), is that partial 
>pages are 'bottom-justified' on the page, which will no doubt 
>look a little odd to our users, who are used to fax machines 
>'top-justifying' partiial pages...

There is a patch to solve exactly this *feature*. Please see

           http://www.hylafax.org/patches/tiff2ps.patch

Unfortunately hylafax.org seems to be down at the moment, so
you may have to be patient for a day or two.

Cheers,
Phil Watkinson,
Boston, UK.